Richly illustrated study drawing on art, literature and science to explore Victorian attitudes towards sight.

Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and

Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which s

Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the "neo-Dickensian" novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one

A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems.